Um... yes and no. In general, I'm with you -- that's sort of a very open job description and it's hard to figure out what the responsibilities are. OTOH: R is

Um... yes and no. In general, I'm with you -- that's sort of a very open job description and it's hard to figure out what the responsibilities are. OTOH: R is an open source project. Maintaining good relations with the many people who contribute to R is pretty key to a company in this space. Also important is talking people into using R instead of the many (SAS, SPSS, Stata, Eviews, Matlab, gauss) alternatives. Pushing themselves as open source plus extras seems to be their business model. There seems like there should be somebody around who talks to the communities of developers and users.